Yesterday morning I wrote that Key’s convenient “ignorance” of a report into the conditions at Taji camp in Iraq was just a bit too cute.
In later developments that day Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee said that Key had indeed been briefed.
Then he (how unexpected is this!) changed his mind:
Brownlee recants comments over PM’s knowledge of Defence report
The Defence Minister is recanting comments that contradicted the Prime Minister over his knowledge of a critical report on Coalition training bases in Iraq.
Yesterday John Key said he was unaware of the report published by the US Department of Defence, but this afternoon defence Minister Gerry Brownlee said Mr Key was told about it before his visit to Taji Airbase last week.
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“There has since been discussions and it would seem he did not know. Nothing was forwarded to him that he could have known until he got back to New Zealand on Friday, two days after the PM left Taji. …
Looks like just another routine coverup of just another routine lie. At least, I hope so, because not knowing / caring about the report would be worse.
Felix Marwick was all over developments yesterday:
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